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They trained the escape reflex that makes the fly jump into the air and fly away whenever you move your hand in position.
I don't know even if there is something called a conditioned reflex.
It's a reflex of wire walkers.
It's very much like they brought into this world the reflex that orients them to people, but it has no traction.
Can, in fact, the technology not simply replace humans, but allow us to reach the level of reflex and intuition that we're all capable of?
So I don't know what to do, so my first reflex, as a graphic designer, is, you know, to show everybody what I'd just seen, and people started to see them and to share them, and that's how it started.
What we've done, then, is we modulate the sensitivity of the reflex, the modeled spinal reflex, with the neural signal, so when I relax my muscles in my residual limb, I get very little torque and power, but the more I fire my muscles, the more torque I get, and I can even run.
So at first they thought they were triggering some kind of laugh reflex, but no, they quickly realized they had found the points in her neocortex that detect humor, and she just found everything hilarious whenever they stimulated these points.
It's an involuntary reflex — ding, click, bing — it's in your calendar, "Gotta go, I'm already late for a meeting."
As soon as I leave the surface the first mechanism kicks in: the diving reflex.
The first thing the diving reflex does is make your heart rate drop.
Next, the diving reflex causes peripheral vasoconstriction, which means that the blood flow will leave the body's extremities to feed the most important organs: the lungs, the heart and the brain.
Think of fixed action pattern like a reflex.
Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course.
This study was set up to show that dogs would enact a yawn reflex at the mere sound of a human yawn.
These reflex tears are different from the basal tears that Iris is used to.
Only now, she's not crying reflex tears but emotional tears.
Another group of scientists believe that the reflex is retained in us today because it actually provides an important advantage.
The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp.
A reflex signal travels back to your bladder, making the detrusor muscle contract slightly and increasing the bladder's pressure so you're aware that it's filling up.
This is called the micturition reflex.
See if you can eliminate the reflex to check it all day long, just for a day.
This inner one will open in a reflex and let through a little bit for testing.
If you hit my patellar tendon with a reflex hammer, my leg is going to jerk forward, and it's going to jerk forward a lot faster and a lot more predictably than if I had to think about it myself.
It's a reflex.
Orgasm is a reflex of the autonomic nervous system.
And the orgasm reflex can be triggered by a surprisingly broad range of input.
There is a reflex called the Lazarus reflex.
Now, if you can trigger the Lazarus reflex in a dead person, why not the orgasm reflex?
Well, if you look at an emotion like this, then it looks like a simple reflex: it's triggered by an external predicament, it's hardwired, it's there to protect us from harm.
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